[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: utilities for genetlink usage

Two utilities for simplifying usage of NETLINK_GENERIC interface.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Balbir Singh 2006-07-14 00:24:39 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 52f17b6c2b
commit fb0ba6bd02
1 changed files with 20 additions and 0 deletions

View File

@ -150,4 +150,24 @@ static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
return nlmsg_unicast(genl_sock, skb, pid);
}
/**
* gennlmsg_data - head of message payload
* @gnlh: genetlink messsage header
*/
static inline void *genlmsg_data(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
{
return ((unsigned char *) gnlh + GENL_HDRLEN);
}
/**
* genlmsg_len - length of message payload
* @gnlh: genetlink message header
*/
static inline int genlmsg_len(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
{
struct nlmsghdr *nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *)((unsigned char *)gnlh -
NLMSG_HDRLEN);
return (nlh->nlmsg_len - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN);
}
#endif /* __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */